Overshoe



No. (526,299.v Patented lune 6, I899.

A. E. ROBERTS.

OVEBSHOEL (Application filed Jan. 19, 1898.)

No Model.)

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ALBERT E. ROBERTS, OF NORI/VALK, OHIO, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGN- MENTS, OF ONE-HALF TO NOADIAH P. BOWLER, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

OVERSHOE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 626,299, dated June 6, 1899.

Application filed January 12, 1898. Serial No. 666,438. (No model.)

TO ME whom it may concern.- a bead 11 This bead has embedded in it a 50 Be it known that I, ALBERT E. ROBERTS, a wire and is preferably formed by vulcancitizen of the United States, residing at Norizing to the upper a rubber tube containing walk, in the county of Huron and State of such wire.

Ohio, have invented a certain new and use- The bead b is adapted to take over the proful Improvement in Overshoes, of which the jecting edge of the shoe-sole and hold the following is a full, clear, and exact clescripovershoe to the shoe when the wire is drawn tion, reference being had to the accompanytightly around the latter. To provide for ing drawings. this drawing of the wire tightly around the ID The object of myiuvention is to provide an shoe, the ends 0 of the wire project inward overshoe having combined with it a positive opposite each other at the shank portion of clamp, which is adapted to lock it to the shoe the overshoe, as shown. On these ends 0 are and thereby prevent it from coming off until right and left hand screw'threads which take the wearer desires. hen this clamp is arinto a turnbuckle D, which has a suitable 15 ranged to take only over the projecting edge thumb portion (Z. The rotation of this turnof the shoe-sole, the forward part of the shoe, buckle in the proper direction draws inward need not extend up higher than just over this the end a an d, if the overshoe is in place about edge and is thus practically invisible. a shoe, clamps it thereto. The turnbuckle The invention consists, first, broadlyin the being at the shank of the overshoe comes 2o combination of an overshoe and a mechanunder the insole of the shoe, where there is ism carried thereby and adapted to positively ordinarily no weight upon it. lock the overshoe to the shoe; second, in an Above the bead b is preferably formed a overshoe having a wire or band adapted to small flap b which, fitting tightly against the lie above the projecting edge of the sole of a shoe-upper a, insures the overshoe fitting 25 shoe, combined with mechanism for drawing water-tight.

said wire tightly into place and'holding it If desired, the heel portion 1) of the overthere, and, third, in an overshoe having comshoe may be omitted altogether and just the bined with it my specific form of locking sole portion used, the same being securely mechanism, substantially as shown in the locked to the shoe by the clamping mech- 0 drawings. anism.

The drawings show an overshoe embodying In placing the overshoe upon the foot, if my invention. there is a heel portion it is turned down to Figure 1 is a side elevation of such overapproximatelya right angle toits normal poshoe in place on a shoe, which is shown in sition and the shoe slipped into place in the 3 5 dotted lines. Fig. 2 is a plan of the overshoe overshoe, so that the bead b and the wire 0 without the shoe. Fig. 3 is a vertical section lie just above the projecting sole of the shoe. through the edge of the overshoe and shoe, The turnbuckle Dis then rotated until the being on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1. wire 0 is tightly drawn about the shoe, there- Referring to the parts by letters, A repre by locking the overshoe to it. The heel por- 40 sents any shoe, and B the overshoe adapted to tion, if any, is then turned up onto the shoe be fitted thereon. This overshoe is shown as and is held there by its own elasticity and by 0 havinga forward or sole portion Z) and a heel friction. In removing the overshoe, the opportion 1). The sides of the overshoe, which eration is of course simply reversed. project upward from the sole portion, I will Having described my invention, I claim- 45 call the upper. This upper is designated 1. The combination of an overshoe, a wire I) and extends upward just a short distance carried by the forward part thereof on the 5 above the upper edge of the sole a of the shoe. inner side and extending around said forward Along the inside of the upper of the overshoe, part to the shank where its ends are free, said preferablyalittle below its top edge, is formed wire being in position to take over the upper edge of a projecting shoe-sole inserted in the overshoe, and means adapted to pull on the rear ends of said wire and thus draw it tightly around the shoe and then hold it in such position, substantially as described.

2. The combination of an overshoe, a U- shaped wire carried by the forward part thereof on the inner side and extending around said forward part in position to take over the upper edge of a projecting shoe-sole and having its rear ends free, and mechanism lying beneath the insole of such shoe and adapted to cause said wire to snugly embrace the shoe, such mechanism being composed of relatively movable parts and operating to alterthe distance between the free ends of said wire, substantially as described.

3. The combination of an overshoe, a wire embedded in the upper thereof and having ends projecting toward each other back of the tread of the sole part, right and left hand threads on said ends, and a turnbuckle with which said threaded ends engage, substan tially as described. 7

4. In an overshoe, in combination, a sole portion and a heel portion, a wire 0 embedded in the forward part of the upper, said wire having projecting ends 0 opposite each other between the sole portion and heel portion, and means for drawing said ends toward each other, substantially as described.

5. The combination, with an overshoe, of a rubber tube containing a wire, said tube being vulcanized to the inner side of the upper of the overshoe in position to lie just above the projecting edge of a shoe-sole, and means for drawing said wire tightly-in place about the said shoe-sole, substantially as described In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

ALBERT E. ROBERTS.

Witnesses:

ALBERT H. BATES, PHILIP E. KNOWLTON. 

